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Legacies of Modernism

Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Patrizia C. McBride

    1. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

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  2. Richard W. McCormick

    1. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

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  3. Monika Žagar

    1. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in European Culture and History (SECH)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction: The Future’s Past—Modernism, Critique, and the Political

    1. Introduction: The Future’s Past—Modernism, Critique, and the Political

      • Patrizia C. McBride
      Pages 1-13

  3. High, Low, and Other: The Politics of Music

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Hans Pfitzner and the Anxiety of Nostalgic Modernism

      • Marc A. Weiner
      Pages 17-28

    3. Mahler, Rembrandt, and the Dark Side of German Culture

      • Carl Niekerk
      Pages 29-40

  6. Architecture and Urban Planning in Weimar Modernity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Imagining the New Berlin: Modernism, Mass Utopia, and the Architectural Avant-Garde

      • Sabine Hake
      Pages 107-118

    3. Rebuilding Babel: Urban Regeneration in the Modern/Postmodern Age

      • Janet Ward
      Pages 119-130

  7. The Politics of Visual Culture: Weimar, Exile, and Postwar

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Politicizing Painting: The Case of New Objectivity

      • Maria Makela
      Pages 133-147

    3. Modernism from Weimar to Hollywood: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?

      • Richard W. McCormick
      Pages 149-161

    4. Clement Greenberg and the Postwar Modernist Canon: Minimizing the Role of Germany and Northern Europe

      • Matthew Rohn
      Pages 163-173

  8. The Politics of Visual Culture in the Third Reich

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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About this book

Between 1890 and 1950 modernist art and culture set out to challenge century-old notions of the individual and the community, culture and politics, morality and freedom, placing into question the very foundations of Western civilization. The essays in this volume present a novel assessment of various manifestations of modernism in Germany and Scandinavia by posing the question of its critical and political impact beyond traditional polarities such as right vs. left, illiberalism vs. Enlightenment, apolitical vs. engaged. In drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including literary studies, art history, film and visual studies, urban studies, musicology, political theory, and the history of science and technology, the essays in this volume reexamine modernism's bold inquiry into areas such as the relation of art to technology and mass politics, the limits of liberal democracy, the reconceptualization of urban spaces, and the realignment of traditional art forms following the rise of new media such as film. The volume's contributors share a belief in the timeliness of modernism's critical impulse for a contemporary age confronted with ethical and political dilemmas that the modernists first articulated and to which they attempted to respond.

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'This excellent collection of essays provides a rich and complete panorama of the main dimensions in which modernism, as an epochal cultural phenomenon, received, extended, but also undermined the intellectual tradition of modernity. It is unusual to find the cultural legacy of a period addressed from so many angles and with such depth and insight.' - Ernesto Laclau, Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Rhetorical Studies, Northwestern University

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

    Patrizia C. McBride, Richard W. McCormick, Monika Žagar

About the editors

PATRIZIA MCBRIDE is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, USA.
RICHARD W.MCCORMICK is Professor of German, Department and the Director of Honors-College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, USA.
MONIKA ZAGAR is an Associate Professor of Scandinavian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.

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